meschac gaba on the Museum of Contemporary African Art
artist gives us a tour around the streets of his home town of Cotonou, Benin find
Discover how artist Andy Warhol made his colourful and iconic silkscreen prints Find
Calle Gral. Aureliano Rivera 17-B Villa Obregon Distrito Federal Mexico 13 August 1947 My very dearest Annerl! Your letter from 24 July arrived while Catharine, Hester (my eldest, below us in the picture, kneeling) and I were as good as lying on our deathbeds with mushroom poisoning. Catharine and Hester have now almost completely recovered, and I’m doing much better again despite the constant headaches and diarrhoea. The deadly mushrooms were a gift from a Swiss friend who has been studying fungi for twenty years, looking at them under microscopes, reading God knows how many volumes about them. She’s supposed …
yet know whether it will be possible, partly because it’s virtually impossible to find
So throughout her body of work you will find this principle of echoing and mirroring
the limits of the human body with performances lasting hours, days or weeks Find
Tate glossary definition for interactive art: Art that relies on the participation of a spectator
Interactive art emerged in the late 1950s in parallel with artists’ desires to find
through it my senses are reaching out and I am drawn to all sorts of things‘ Find
find out more Artist Annette Messager born 1943
[Translation/transcription] 1 Albert Studios 4 Albert Street London NW1 6 August 1958 Dear Hodin, The catalogue is a masterpiece. Many sincere thanks. I’m sending along six copies here. They’ve only just arrived (the first batch for the invitations was rather short, but there are enough here now). I have more and shall keep them here for you (or, if you like, I’ll send you more). I’m sending five further copies of Arts News (and will buy more in the next few days). The portrait you’ve painted of me and everything else you’ve written about me is so fine that I …
Mrs Nahez is threatening me, I must find someone to buy the pictures – easier said
Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, St Ives: Restoration and Preservation Find
